Example sentences of "be [pron] [adv] to do " in BNC.
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1 | Before you can take a bearing at all there 's something you have to do , which is what , what am I about to do ? |
2 | The great question I was always asked was , ‘ Are you here to do art with the patients ? |
3 | That way there 'd be nobody around to do him any harm . ’ |
4 | If you had a predominance of company workers where everybody run around following the rules well there 'd be nobody else to do anything else . |
5 | There did n't seem to be anything else to do . |
6 | Are they solely to do with consciousness ( in so far as they relate to ontological stakes or emotional investments in racist ideology which may be pre- or even un-conscious ) ? |
7 | ‘ There 's nothing else to do . ’ |
8 | There 's nothing else to do anyway except spend all day watching the telly . ’ |
9 | There 's nothing else to do all day but swan around . |
10 | I said yeah , well there 's nothing else to do . |
11 | Really I I I just go out mainly , I 'm not , not cos I do n't , I just , I go out because there 's nothing else to do and it 's boring being stuck in on your own all the time ! |
12 | We might as well there 's nothing else to do , apart from my , apart from my UCCA form . |
13 | Sanger duty is particularly boring because there is nothing else to do but look out of the window , and since it is rarely done in pairs social interaction provides no compensation . |
14 | Surveyor Chris Easton , who conducted extensive tests on the houses , said : ‘ I think there is nothing else to do but demolish these homes . |
15 | He says ; I enjoy it there is nothing else to do . |
16 | Is it best to do sort of a say if a question , Which accent do you not like ? |
17 | Is it best to do a series of accents and get 'em to tick or get 'em |
18 | Or is it just to do the shopping ? |
19 | So when is it alright to do games ? |
20 | Is it more to do with the deceased Dr Puddephat 's sex life ? |
21 | or is it only to do with doors opening ? |
22 | So there was nothing else to do then but head for the Vareyoc Café and try to relax . |
23 | He inevitably became a sunset watcher ; there was nothing else to do . |
24 | When I realised there was nothing else to do in the world but write my own songs and play , that 's when I brought them out and did them . |
25 | There was nothing else to do ; on her prowls through the empty burrow she 'd already viewed the geology cubes and there was nothing else but tasteless pornography . |
26 | There was nothing else to do with him ; theatrical landladies did n't offer babysitting with the rent . |
27 | ‘ I accepted the heroin because I felt there was nothing else to do — I loved him , ’ she says . |
28 | And on the Sunday well you 'd go to church or chapel because literally there was nothing else to do . |
29 | There was nothing else to do . |
30 | But it was equally obvious , to the impartial eye at the lens , that there was nothing else to do . |